EDIT: Check out photo coverage, which moopie has rehosted from DES. It's a couple posts down, and there are some ... very awesome pictures in the spoiler
EDIT 2: Additional photos now at the end of the post
On the 23rd, the KeSPA football cup between the 9 progamer teams (besides ACE) was held on the national team's training field. KT and STX valiantly fought into the finals, but thereupon the exchange of fire with North Korea occurred. Worried about the players' safety, KeSPA decided to postpone the final game.
In the Ro8, STX defeated Samsung 3:0, with Calm kicking two in and hero adding a goal of his own, showing off their immense strength.
Hwaseung Oz, known as the "Hwaseung Football Club," came to a deadlock with Hite. In a penalty shootout, Oz advanced 4:1 into the Ro4.
In the prelims, Hite had defeated KeSPA's team 2:0 after a quick goal by Movie sealed the win.
The semifinal match between Hwaseung and STX was pretty much an earlier finals game. Lomo got Oz on the board early, but STX countered with two goal from coach Jo Gyu Baek for a comeback win. Hwaseung was stranded at the Ro4.
Out of the Ro8 matches, the most anticipated was the one between telecommunications rivals KT and SKT. Both sides had issued declarations of war, and that neither side would let the other score, and in fact during the first half the neither team earned a single goal. In the second half, however, SKT coach Kwun Oh Hyuk opened the scoring, but KT's head coach Lee Ji Hoon evened the game out and it went to penalties. However, in the penalty shootout, goalie Reach demonstrated the talent of a prodigy, and his courageous control led KT to a 4:3 win of the shootout.
KT's Ro4 opponent was FOX, fresh off a win against Stars' female team. KT, however, had played a prelim match, so their strength was deterioriating after their two earlier games. WeMade, capitalizing on this weakness, applied early pressure to their opponents. However, the miraculous Reach once again displayed his power; as goalie, his contributions were invaluable to keep the score at 0:0. In the penalty shootout, Reach continued his spectacular run by blocking three shots in a row, keeping WeMade to zero points and sending his team to the finals. Reach was undoubtedly KT's hero of the day.
As stated earlier, the finals match between KT and STX was delayed due to KeSPA's concerns about the players' safety as the artillery fire was exchanged with North Korea.
Here's a bracket:
Calm was honored as the king of shooting.
Out of the players who participated in the KeSPA cup, the one who shone the most was STX's Calm. He was fast and precise, and with two goals scored he earned honors as the best scorer. Even the teams who faced STX felt Calm's overwhelming offensive presence. In the blink of an eye, the short, quick runner could be past you. Even when pinned by the defense, Calm could assist his teammates with his passing. One spectator remarked, "This is like the skill of a professional."
After the tournament, Calm said, "Today I ran very actively, so I was able to score twice. To be honest, there was a lot of luck involved. I will do my best in our match with KT as well."
In other news, since Woongjin's female team [T/N according to CSheep, the Chinese community just likes to label Woongjin as effeminate] was eliminated early, their main player Zero acted as a cheerleader. He also revealed his brand new cellphone to the reporter. To the reporter's surprise, the background of the phone was famous singer IU! [T/N I think...] Zero laughed, "This is the girl of my dreams."
Whoo mantoss! Showing that his manliness extends the borders of just progaming by showing how awesome of a goalie he is. That picture of reach in the goal....that's my new desktop picture. :3
! so THIS is what all those tweets were about lol. I saw a bunch but the pictures didn't make much sense because i can't read korean. I'm glad that progammers do something outside every once and a while.
The woman's team comment just refers to the fact that the Chinese community likes to nickname/portray Stars as a really effeminate team, due mainly to free and Zero <3
ah, I was going to do an impromptu writeup of the event from the team + kespa tweets but I'm glad you guys put this together so now I don't have to lol here are some pictures pulled from CJ+Kespa+WMF tweets + Show Spoiler +
So, Rolsters pretty good at soccer hmm? Well, I guess they had to be good at something. Mabey they spent all of their time practicing for this rather than for proleauge.
On an unrelated note, pictures of action make me smile every time. I think I root for him only so that I can see him more.
The watermark covers up the winner, but it looks blank anyway. Because calm won MVP and got a winners interview, STX probaly won right?
On November 24 2010 09:03 hacklebeast wrote: The watermark covers up the winner, but it looks blank anyway. Because calm won MVP and got a winners interview, STX probaly won right?
As stated earlier, the finals match between KT and STX was delayed due to KeSPA's concerns about the players' safety as the artillery fire was exchanged with North Korea.
On November 24 2010 09:03 hacklebeast wrote: So, Rolsters pretty good at soccer hmm? Well, I guess they had to be good at something. Mabey they spent all of their time practicing for this rather than for proleauge.
On an unrelated note, pictures of action make me smile every time. I think I root for him only so that I can see him more.
The watermark covers up the winner, but it looks blank anyway. Because calm won MVP and got a winners interview, STX probaly won right?
On November 24 2010 06:48 tree.hugger wrote: Movie wanted to be a professional football player at one point, I'm surprised he couldn't win the tournament single-handedly for Hite Entus.
On November 24 2010 06:48 tree.hugger wrote: Movie wanted to be a professional football player at one point, I'm surprised he couldn't win the tournament single-handedly for Hite Entus.
Surprised Rolster is doing so well I bet it's not due to Flash... I remember seeing that kid play basketball and he couldn't heave it high enough to hit the rim.
Oh god, the photos are amazing! =D Who would have thought, Reeeeach for the goal *horrible pun intended*. Thanks for the translations and it is great to see such fun, keep playing well! =3
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